inauspicious 1. Suggesting that the future is not very promising or that success is unlikely; not favorable; boding ill; ill-omened; not auspicious. 2. Not conducive to success; unpromising; contrary to one's interests or welfare. The augur is now reversing his previous auspicious interpretation of the birds in flight so that the situation is now ... Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1993/4
auspicious, inauspicious An auspex interpreted the flight of birds as auspicious for the Romans to begin a new battle; however, he later divined that the birds had shown the situation to be inauspicious. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/3672/